Between the Dirt and Clouds installation
Part of installation at Rietveld Academy Graduation Show 2026
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Between the Dirt and Clouds installation 2026
Homesick
Remember the Fall
If walls have ears
Installation
Bear with me
There are three ceramic bears that look nearly exactly alike. Hereby I question the status of authenticity by the practice of handmade reproduction. The handcrafted (false) seam on the sides suggests the industrial fabrication of two joint parts. Hereby the fake/real and copy/authentic collapse.
The Precarity of Dreams
Blue glass (roof) panels installed on wooden construction. As part of the Between the Dirt and Clouds installation. Rooftiles traditionally form a distinctive and protective skin separating the private from the outer realm. In this work I re-think rooftiles as a desire for connection. To feel safe in relation to the world in- and outside. To have a space to look up where dreams exist. Not as escape, but charged with a sense of belonging. The blue wave-like panels move between the inner and outer realm, the elemental and the dreamlike. Forming a fragile and flowing connection between the Dirt and the Clouds.
7
Two seven point stars made from ceramics installed with a magnetic pin on the wall on which it reflects an orange glow. Traditionally the 7 point star is a highly charched symbol connecting the spiritual and the earth. While an actual star does not have corners or sides, I find it interesting how we think of diffracted light as an object having a shape with an outline. There is a cognitive abstraction at play in the formation of these concepts that in turn influences pereception. In this work the orange glow is questioning with a sense of playfulness where the boundaries of an object begins and ends.
Monsters - A Category of Crisis thesis 2026
BA Fine Art Thesis presented in ceramic sleeve.